Removing and installing filler neck for washer fluid reservoir — AUDI
Removing and installing filler neck for washer fluid reservoir on Audi: 12 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
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- Disregard (item 2).
- If necessary, disengage fuel hoses from retainer.Disregard (items 5 and 6).
📋 Procedure
- Press release tab and detach vacuum line (1) for activated charcoal filter. [Note: Disregard (item 2).]
- Detach vacuum hose from coolant pipe.
- Lift off release tab (1)(arrow A) and pull activated charcoal filter (2) (with hose connected) out of bracket (arrow B).
- Place activated charcoal filter to one side.
- Detach engine cover panel (arrows).
- Loosen bolt (1).
- Remove bolt (2) and nut (3).
- Detach hose retainer (4) at fuel filter and place fuel filter (7) to one side (with fuel hoses connected). [Note: If necessary, disengage fuel hoses from retainer.Disregard (items 5 and 6).]
- Remove bolt (1).
- Pull filler pipe with filler neck (2) off washer fluid reservoir (3).
- Slide filler pipe (3) onto washer fluid reservoir (1) as far as stop.
- Install fuel filter 20.
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